This year is one for milestones. I reached my Razorback football number — 73 — in age last week. In July, Suzy and I will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary (if either of us remembers), and today marks the 2500th post on The Hubbell Pew. It was almost fifteen years ago that my son developed…
Tag: Maria Popova
Is There A God?
Maria Popova’s post this Sunday talks about often asked questions posed to Steven Hawking during his lifetime, which Hawking attempts to answer in his final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions. The book begins with the question is there a God? Hawking concludes with his answer to the universal question: “It’s my view that…
We Are Never One Thing
We are never one thing, our lumbering potentialities stirred into being by situations in which chance and choice conspire to make us the people we are said to have been. — Maria Popova. When I speak to groups I often talk about my journey without maps. When I came across Popova’s words they struck home. We all…
The Paradox of Power
Yes, I finish my week of being refreshed and inspired today. Now I return to reality and knee surgery. Here are a few words of inspiration: “Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman,…
Randomness Is the Reigning Monarch of the Universe
Randomness is the reigning monarch of the universe. — Maria Popova, Figuring We think we are in control, but no matter how many walls we erect around our existence, things happen that come out of nowhere. We do everything perfect at work, and the boss decides to sell the business and you’re laid off. You’ve decided to…